The Cure – Just Like Heaven
152 bpm 4/4 8th Note Strumming
[Kiss Me,Kiss Me, Kiss Me 1987]
Intro
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Verse 1
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"Show me… Show me… Show me how you do that trick…
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The one that makes me scream…" she said…
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"The one that makes me laugh…" she said…
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and threw her arms around my neck…
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"Show me how you do it…
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and I promise you I promise that
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I'll run away with you…
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I'll run away with you…"
Interlude
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Verse 2
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Spinning on that dizzy edge…
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I kissed her face and kissed her head…
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and dreamed of all the different ways
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I had to make her glow…
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"Why are you so far away…"
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She said "Why won't you ever know that I'm in
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love with you… that I'm in love with you…”
Bridge
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You-uuu… Soft and only…
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You-uuu… Lost and lonely…
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You-uuu… Strange as angels
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dancing in the deepest oceans
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twisting in the water you're just like a
Solo
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dream… You're just like a dream…
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Verse 3
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Daylight licked me into shape…
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I must have been asleep for days…
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and moving lips… to breathe her name…
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I opened up my eyes…
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and found myself alone… alone…
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alone above a raging sea…
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that stole the only girl I loved…
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and drowned her deep inside of me…
Outro
F#m G
You-uuu… Soft and only…
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You-uuu… Lost and lonely…
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You-uuu… just like heaven…